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Dopefish
on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:00AM
from the community-oversight-is-needed dept.
from the community-oversight-is-needed dept.
AnonTechie writes "Bruce Schneier:
The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual mission --protecting the security of U.S. communications and eavesdropping on the communications of our enemies has become unbalanced in the post-Cold War, all-terrorism-all-the-time era. Putting the U.S. Cyber Command, the military's cyberwar wing, in the same location and under the same commander, expanded the NSA's power. The result is an agency that prioritizes intelligence gathering over security, and that's increasingly putting us all at risk.
It's time we thought about breaking up the National Security Agency."
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(Score: 1) by Skarjak on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:09PM
After reading your post, my first though was:"Whoa. You got some balls posting this online, dude."
It's kinda sad when you think about it. Humanity needs a network where we can share our beliefs and information anonymously. The one we had was taken from us.
(Score: 2) by dmc on Thursday February 27 2014, @10:02PM
That's the thing about about the new surveillance and oppression apparatus- they are systematically using deeply funded psychological tactics combined with new levels of pervasive technology to "cut the balls and ovaries off of all who would voice their dissent against it". I either suffer from a persecution complex, or as I still believe more likely- complex persecutions that have been going on for over a decade.
Ponder this quote from the 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson regarding potential new president Barack Obama in a more historical context now-
"I want to cut his nuts off."
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25611808/ns/politics-dec ision_08/t/obama-accepts-jesse-jacksons-apology/ [nbcnews.com]